Ours / Naša
2007 November, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Venue
Saturday 17th November, at 7 pm
Theater and dance site-specific installation
Platform in front of the Slovene Ethnographic Museum (SEM), Ljubljana
Free admittance
Cast & Crew
Concept: Barbara Kapelj Osredkar, Ales Korpič
Direction: Barbara Kapelj Osredkar
Sound design: Neža Zinaič and Aunt Zefa’s Girls Chorus
Performers: Jelena Rusjan, NezaTrobec Teropsic, Neza Zinaic and Aunt Zefa’s Girls Chorus
Production: Zavod Masa
Co-produced by the City of Women in conjunction with the Slovene Ethnographic Museum (SEM)
About Ours
This installation is a sequence of Yours, an interactive animation of Barbara Kapelj Osredkar presented at Skuc Gallery and the SEM Cafe within the context of the 13th City of Women Festival, this time in a performative form.
The audio-visual monument Ours is an event conceived for a specific place, which summarises individual elements of visual messages produced on Slovene territory between 1920 and 1970. The place which brought together women addressed in Slovene advertisement posters from the said period is a market square whose contemporary equivalent is undoubtedly the square in front of the national Ethnographic Museum. The role of women in these posters is particularly related to aspects of creation: the home, family, manufactures, homeland, and cleanliness. During the event, three performers are to build a monumental commemoration to Her, to Ours – a memorial to posters of Slovene women. The event is designed as a collective construction and takes place as a series, a collage of songs popular during that era. While the songs are being performed, a “poster” is actually being constructed, drawn on the ground as a mosaic of candles and bricks laid by the protagonists.
The trails of women’s writing, the flashes, the fragments of writing dedicated to a woman build up as a memory of long-forgotten times at the threshold of the contemporary, and leave behind nostalgia for that which is long gone and inscribed in our roots.
The construction works are performed by actress Jelena Rusjan, visual artist and vocalist Neza Trobec-Teropsic, who performs with the groups Godalika, Sur, and Neza Zinaic, and visual artist and violinist in the Compe music group together with the Aunt Zefa’s Girls Chorus.
Gledališko plesno prostorska instalacija in performans Naša
Je nadaljevanje zvočno prostorskega projekta Tvoja, ki sem ga predstavila v galeriji ŠKUC in v kavarni SEM, v okviru 13. festivala Mesto žensk, tokrat v performanitvi obliki.
Zvočno vizualni spomenik Naša je dogodek, koncipiran za točno določen prostor, ki povzema posamezne elemente slovenskih vizualnih sporočil med leti 1920 in 1970. Prostor, ki je združeval ženske, obravnavane na slovenskih oglaševalskih plakatih med leti 1920-1970 je trg. V današnjem času je eden najsodobnejših mestnih trgov zagotovo trg pred Slovenskim etnografskim muzejem. Vloga žensk, ki se pojavlja na plakatih obravnavanih plakatih pa je predvsem gradnja: gradnja doma, družine, tovarne, domovine, čistoče. Na tem monumentalnem prostoru bi tri performerke v času dogodka, zgradile zdaj spomenik Njej-Naši – spomenik slovenskemu ženskemu plakatu. Dogodek je zgrajen kot kolektivna gradnja in poteka kot niz, kolaž pesmi, ki so nastale v obravnavanem obdobju. Ob izvajanju pesmi se hkrati godi dejanska gradnja plakata, medtem se izrisuje v prostoru na tla kot mozaik iz sveč in opek, ki jih polagajo na tla akterke.
Sledi ženske pisave, utrinki, fragmenti pisave namenjene ženski, se kot spomin na davno minule čase, gradijo na pragu sodobnega in puščajo za sabo nostalgijo davno minulega, zapisanega v naših koreninah.
Gradnjo izvajajo dramska igralka Jelena Rusjan, likovna ustvarjalka ter vokalistka skupin Godalika ter Sur Neža Trobec-Teropšič ter likovna ustvarjalka in violinistka skupine Čompe Neža Zinaić. Vokalistko spremlja na saksofonu član Big Banda RTV Slovenije Miha Hawlina.
© Photographs by Tomaž Lunder